I use GE often in my work. I havent been able to start it in the past few days.

Today I decided to track down why.
I rebooted my computer, Boinc started, Earth would not.
After turning off my computer, turning it back on, Earth started. Boinc manager would start but it cant find any projects.
I turned off Earth and I have the same issue.

Im running Ubuntu 13.10

For me personally, when I run BOINC (Einstein and Seti on my AMD HD 7870 GPU only) and then start GE, my videocard driver resets itself. This then crashes GE.

So I learned to add an exclusion to my cc_config.xml, that tells BOINC to just suspend when I run GE. Might be something for you as well.

You can add CPU exclusions through BOINC Manager->Advanced view->Tools->Computing preferences->exclusive applications. At least, you can use that path in Windows, should be the same in Linux. And else manually add an exclusion to cc_config.xml, or make this file if it isn't in existence yet. It doesn't come by default with BOINC.

Adding a CPU exclusion, will suspend BOINC from running for as long as that application is in memory.

e.g.

<cc_config>
<log_flags>
</log_flags>
<options>
<exclusive_app>googleearth</exclusive_app>
</options>
</cc_config>

Saved as cc_config.xml in either home/BOINC/, or if you used repository BOINC, in /etc/boinc-client
Restarting the client will read in this cc_config.xml file and now when you next start GE, BOINC should automatically suspend doing work and resume when GE leaves memory.

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